Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed September 23, 2020
Industry Hopes for Quick Action on FAST Act Extension
The transportation construction industry anticipates the one-year extension of the FAST Act surface transportation authorization, which is set to expire at the end of September. Passage of the extension looks likely after Congress reached a tentative agreement on Sept....
AASHTO - Tue September 22, 2020
California Gets 'Quick Relief' Funds for Wildfire Damage
The Federal Highway Administration recently issued two packets of "quick release" Emergency Relief or ER funds to California (and Oregon) agencies to pay for repairs to transportation infrastructure damaged by wildfires raging across several western states....
ADOT - Wed September 09, 2020
State Projects Earn America's Transportation Awards
Three of the state's major freeway and highway projects have earned regional awards in a national transportation competition that focuses on efforts to strengthen communities, improve the quality of life and foster a more efficient economy....
TxDOT - Tue September 08, 2020
Border West Expressway Wins Regional Achievement Award
The Border West Expressway (BWE) has been recognized for improving transportation in the El Paso area. The $640 million, 7.4-mi. roadway that runs along the U.S.-Mexico border and completes a loop around El Paso is one of 11 transportation projects that earned regional recognition as part of America's Transportation Awards....
Louisiana DOTD - Wed September 02, 2020
DOTD's Eric Kalivoda Wins Prestigious National Award
Eric Kalivoda, deputy secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, recently was announced as the recipient of the prestigious Thomas H. MacDonald Memorial Award. The award is the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) top award and is presented each year to someone who has "rendered continuous outstanding service over an extended period of time or have made some exceptional contribution to the art and science of highway engineering."Kalivoda has served on the executive staff as the deputy secretary for the past ten years....
FDOT - Mon August 24, 2020
FDOT Projects Receive Recognition From America's Transportation Awards
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) received two regional awards for the S.R. 82 Widening Project and SunTrax Phase 1 from the Southern Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (SASHTO) as part of the annual America's Transportation Awards competition....
IACMI – The Composites Institute - Wed August 05, 2020
Composite Bridge Offers Low-Cost Solution for Rural Tennessee County
A damaged, decades-old concrete bridge just off a narrow, curvy rural road in north central Tennessee's Morgan County will soon come down, and a low-cost, low-maintenance, technologically advanced composites bridge deck system with a 100-year lifespan will take its place....
AASHTO Journal - Tue May 19, 2020
State DOTs Would Get $15B in Phase 4 COVID-19 Bill
A $3 trillion, 1,815-page COVID-19 relief measure proposed by the House of Representatives on May 12 contains $15 billion in stopgap funds for state departments of transportation – well below the nearly $50 billion the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials projects state DOTs will need to continue operations in the face of drastic falloffs in motor fuel tax revenues, toll road receipts, and other funding sources....
AASHTO Journal - Thu April 16, 2020
AASHTO Asks Congress for $50B Fiscal Backstop for State DOTs
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials sent a letter to Congressional leadership on April 6 requesting the immediate emergency injection of $49.95 billion to offset an estimated 30 percent loss in state transportation revenues over the next 18 months....
Nebraska DOT - Wed April 01, 2020
AASHTO Recognizes Eight Nebraska DOT Transportation Projects
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), in Washington D.C., is beginning a new public outreach campaign entitled "The Benefits of Transportation: The Solutions State DOTs Bring to People and Their Communities."Designed to increase public awareness about the multitude of benefits transportation investment provides, this new national campaign uses an interactive map to link website visitors to transportation projects across the country — eight projects in Nebraska — that are reducing travel times, improving safety, protecting the environment, and boosting the economy....
